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Qualifying Conditions for Medical Marijuana by State

Alaska

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Pain
  • Nausea
  • Seizures
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple Sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Alaska’s application for medical marijuana registry.

Arizona

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Pain
  • Nausea
  • Seizures
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • PTSD

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Arizona state legislature concerning medical marijuana.

California

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Anorexia
  • AIDS
  • Chronic pain
  • Spasticity
  • Glaucoma
  • Arthritis
  • Migraines

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to California Proposition 215.

Colorado

Although Colorado has implemented a legal recreational cannabis market, it still operates medical marijuana dispensaries for valid patients. Colorado MMJ patients still pay standard sales tax on cannabis but are exempt from the high excise taxes and additional state taxes collected from recreational cannabis sales.

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Persistent muscle spasms
  • Seizures
  • Severe nausea
  • Severe pain

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Colorado’s Debilitating Conditions for Medical Marijuana Use.

Connecticut

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity
  • Epilepsy
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Wasting syndrome
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Connecticut’s medical marijuana qualification requirements.

Delaware

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis C
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Intractable nausea
  • Seizures
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Delaware’s medical marijuana program guidelines.

District of Columbia

Qualifying conditions include:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS)
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • decompensated cirrhosis
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Seizure disorders

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the District of Columbia’s Medical Marijuana Program Patient FAQ.

Hawaii

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Pain
  • Nausea
  • Seizures
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Hawaii Senate Bill 862.

Illinois

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
  • Sjogren’s syndrome
  • Lupus
  • Interstitial cystitis
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Nail-patella syndrome
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis C
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Spinal cord disease and injury
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Arnold-Chiari malformation &syringomyelia
  • Ataxia
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Tourettes
  • Myoclonus
  • Dystonia
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • Cardiopulmonary respiratory syndrome
  • Causalgia
  • Epilepsy

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Illinois House Bill 0030.

Maine

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Chronic pain (which has not responded to conventional therapy for more than six months)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Cancer
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Glaucoma
  • Hepatitis C (active form)
  • HIV
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBS)
  • Seizure disorders
  • Severe muscle spasms (including multiple sclerosis and other diseases causing severe and persistent muscle spasms)
  • Severe nausea

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Maine’s medical use of marijuana guidelines.

Maryland

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Severe, debilitating, or chronic pain
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy
  • Severe and persistent muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis C

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Maryland Senate Bill 757.

Massachusetts

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • AIDS
  • Hepatitis C
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Multiple sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Massachusetts medical use of marijuana FAQ.

Michigan

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis C
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Nail-patella syndrome
  • Cachexia (wasting disease)
  • Severe and chronic pain
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures
  • Epilepsy
  • Muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Michigan Medical Marihuana Registry Program FAQ.

Montana

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Chronic pain
  • Intractable nausea or vomiting
  • Epilepsy or an intractable seizure disorder
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Painful peripheral neuropathy
  • A central nervous system disorder resulting in chronic, painful spasticity or muscle spasms

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Montana Code Annotated 2013.

Nevada

Qualifying conditions include:

  • AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • Condition or treatment for a medical condition that produces cachexia (general physical wasting and malnutrition)
  • Persistent muscle spasms (including multiple sclerosis)
  • Seizures (including epilepsy)
  • Severe nausea
  • Severe pain

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Nevada Medical Marijuana Program.

New Hampshire

Qualifying conditions include:

  • A chronic or terminal disease
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Severe pain
  • Severe nausea/vomiting
  • Seizures
  • Severe, persistent muscle spasms

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to New Hampshire House Bill 573.

New Jersey

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Terminal cancer
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBS)
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Terminal illness if the physician has determined a prognosis of less than 12 months of life
  • Seizure disorder, including epilepsy
  • Intractable skeletal muscular spasticity
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cancer

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Program.

New Mexico

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Severe chronic pain
  • Painful peripheral neuropathy
  • Intractable nausea/vomiting
  • Severe anorexia
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Hepatitis C infection currently receiving antiviral treatment
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS)
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with intractable spasticity
  • Epilepsy
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Inflammatory autoimmune-mediated arthritis
  • Hospice patients

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program FAQ.

New York

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Epilepsy
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Huntington’s Disease
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Lou Gehrig’s disease
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Neuropathies
  • Spinal cord damage

Oregon

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • Alzheimer’s
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Severe pain
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures, including but not limited to seizures caused by epilepsy
  • Persistent muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.

Rhode Island

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis C
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Chronic pain
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures, including but not limited to those characteristic of epilepsy
  • Severe and persistent muscle spasms
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Alzheimer’s

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Rhode Island’s medical marijuana approved qualifying debilitating medical conditions.

Vermont

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • AIDS/HIV
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
  • Severe pain
  • Nausea
  • Seizures

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Vermont patient marijuana registry FAQ.

Washington

Although Washington voters have passed Initiative 502, which will result in a legal recreational cannabis market, it will not debut until late spring/early summer 2014. Until that time, cannabis can still only be acquired by valid medical marijuana patients.

Qualifying conditions include:

  • Cancer
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Spasticity disorders
  • Intractable pain
  • Glaucoma
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Hepatitis C
  • Diseases, including anorexia, which result in nausea, vomiting, wasting, appetite loss, cramping, seizures, muscle spasms, or spasticity

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to the Washington State Legislature RCW 69.51A.010 (http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=69.51A.010)

 

 

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